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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
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Last week, after narrowly escaping a burning art gallery, I was strolling back through the gloomy, underlit streets of Notting Hill when my foot struck something on the pavement. It was a book, skidding along the stones in front of me. I stopped, bent down and plucked it from the pavement: Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn. The book, a history of the magical Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn constantly mentions Aleister Crowley; aka Frater Perdurabo; aka 'The Great Beast 666'; aka Baphomet; aka The Mad Mullah; aka Oliver Haddo; aka "The Wickedest Man in the World". Aleister Crowley, the most notorious occultist of all time - the man whose papers I had just booked a place to view the following Monday.
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